Lou:
>The critical transformation of social property relations, in Marx's
>account, took place in the English countryside. In the new agrarian
>relations, landlords increasingly derived rents from the commercial profits
>of capitalist tenants, while many small producers were dispossessed and
>became wage laborers.
>
>>>REPLY: Of course. This is how British capitalism developed. Capitalism
>developed differently in Latin America, Ireland, India, etc. It was
>characterized by unfree labor. We are dealing with a system. Let me repeat
>this with emphasis. WE ARE DEALING WITH A SYSTEM. FREE LABOR AND RAPID
>INDUSTRIALIZATION AT THE CORE. UNFREE LABOR AND STAGNATION AT THE PERIPHERY.<<
There is no contradiction between (A) the thesis that the origin of
capitalism lies in the transformation of social property relations in
the English countryside and (B) the development of modern slavery &
other forms of unfree labor used in production of commodities on the
periphery _for_ the capitalist world market.
What do you think caused B if not A? If you say colonialism, what
caused colonialism? The evil character of White Man? Greed at the
heart of Human Nature?
Yoshie
